CURLEW IS HOPEFUL FOR A WILDER WORLD, SOMEWHERE SHE FEELS SAFE TO REST. WHERE THE WIND BLOWS, GRASS WILL SHELTER HER, AS SHE SEARCHES FOR HER QUIET NEST. CURLEW IS HOPEFUL FOR A WILDER WORLD. HEATHLAND, MOORLAND, MARSH, OR DUNE. SHE WADES, SHE SINGS, AND STILL SHE TRUSTS THAT A WILDER WORLD WILL FIND HER SOON.

It’s World Curlew Day 🤍
A perfect moment to celebrate one of our most iconic beauties (and one of our most rapidly declining breeding bird species).
If you’re not already following @curlewaction.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social, today’s the day to start
#WorldCurlewDay #Curlew #BirdArt

If you need some calm, come walk with Monty and me in the woodlands. Taken from today’s lunchtime stroll. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 😊

#nature #woodlands #trees #walk #dog #cockapoo #peace #calm #life #mindfulness #spring #birdsong

I had to find this to order a print for my wall after you posted it. Thank you

Painting of different coloured tulips in two glass vases on a grey surface against a white background

Tulips, c. 2000 by Elizabeth Blackadder #WomensArt #April

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Painting of dark brown tulip blossoms among a group of tulip plants

Tulips, 1936 by Ida O'Keeffe, US painter and younger sister of Georgia #WomensArt

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Painting of a white woman sitting amongst flowers on a forest floor reading a book amongst birch trees, dressed in dark clothing

Reading in a Landscape,1896 by Finnish painter Ada Thilen #WomensArt #Sunday

A fox and various animals, including a chipmunk and rabbit and skunk, cuddle together next to a warm blazing fire, telling stories, with a stone & ancient fireplace, and mantle with books and a toy ship on the mantle. It’s a very cosy scene - very inviting and full of glowing warm light using rich hues & realist detail despite the imagined, whimiscal scene.

Let’s huddle in together & avoid the Sunday Scaries with this cozy fire. Sweet dreams, everyone ♥️ (art Astrid Sheckels)

"Rafa" sent this video from where he is thinning grapevines by removing smaller shoots to allow the main vines to develop. "Knowing how to do this and which shoots to eliminate is a crucial part of preparing for the growing season." #WeFeedYou

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Andy Neal is weittung and making videos about hiking & mental health ! I get asked all the time how people can support what I do. You can do a small one time show of monetary support here without any future obligation. I know sometimes subscriptions can be a little scary

Buy Andy from @andyfilmsandhikes.bsky.social a coffee :) buymeacoffee.com/andyfilmsandhikes

Burried in the nooks and crannies of social media there are little amazingly supportive communities. The authentic ones are not always easy to find. But they exist and when you get there and feel the comfort in knowing your not alone, its everything.

Happy thoughts people
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Osprey Packs is joining the Save the US Forest Service movement!

Painting featuring different coloured tulip blossoms on thin green stems agaist a cream background

Elizabeth Blackadder,
Tulips, 1998
#WomensArt #April.

A sea of blue, swaying in the spring breeze, a halo of early morning light sitting above and around them. The bluebells are out in all their joy. May your day be peaceful, my friends. 🙂

#nature #spring #bluebells #flowers #woodlands #calm #peace #life #walk #mindfulness #photography

Shakespeare’s Ophelia sits on a log in spring next to a pond full of lush lily pads. She is dressed in Elizabethan/late medieval garb and the work is done in a late Victorian, late romanticist style -the verdant greens and lily pads/nature contrast with her auburn red hair, and the work is lush with nature/spring flowers, all in contrast to Ophelia’s tragic inner life & pain.

‘Ophelia,’ John W. Waterhouse, circa 1894

A beautifully, dark red fox gazes at the field in spring beneath a full moon, with a white house in the distance, with a smoking chimney…above the fox are two birds in the tree that is in early bud in spring with beautiful blossoms. There’s also a bird’s nest in the tree. On the field are beautiful flowers blooming as spring envelopes what the fox is taking in….the landscape in front of him under a full moon in spring.

Our friends the fox & the birds will keep watch tonight…sweet dreams, everyone ♥️ (art Jo Grundy)

Photo of the books listed in the post side by side on a dark blue woven rug.

#BannedBookSkyClub schedule:

April 2026: The Martian, Andy Weir
May 2026: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
June 2026: Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
July 2026: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Link to feed in replies. #BookSky

Please join us.

A pair of large brown hares leap through a blossoming field full of spring’s flowers… the flowers are all shades of purple, pink daisies, green leaves, and white flowers… in the background and in the distance are possibly blooming cherry blossom trees, rolling hills, and a quarter moon lighting up the sky.

Sweet dreams, everyone 🤎 (art by Lucy Grossmith)

It’s never too late to start supporting independent bookstores instead of, you know, other places. 😌

Painting of a white young girl in a coat and hat holding a small dog

US Impressionist Mary Cassatt,
Elsie Cassatt Holding a Big Dog, 1880 #WomensArt

A winged brown/gold/green dragon sits happily reading in a green, wingback chair, in his cosy den, complete with a roaring fire with a mantle, old books, clock, large bookshelves, & lit candles surrounding him… behind him, his cat sits on the back of his tall chair, there are family portraits, & paintings on the wall as well…it’s a cosy scene

because dragons can be bookish introverts, too

Grape hyacinth, violas, alkanet, comfrey, heather and saxifrage from the garden. 28.03.26

There’s neuroscientific evidence that looking at beautiful things, esp. plants & pausing to take in the details can alleviate stress & lift mood. Found these in the garden just now-they’re in a pale blue Victorian ink bottle. Pause to give your brain a small rest 🧠🌿

Violas on a brown paper background in colours that shift gently to create a floral ombré

In case you’re also a fan of pansies and violas here are a few more. Dopamine from pansies= pansamine ✔️🌿

a quiet forest scene in which tall old pines shade the scene in beautiful greens and browns on a warm day… down the middle, into the foreground, is a quiet clear stream surrounded by moss and grass and stones as it meanders through a hilly forest slope & far in the distance in the background, the sun is shining beyond the shaded forest scene

‘To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.’
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cherry plum blossom I photographed in Grantchester last week 🌿

Today I’m flying low & I’m not saying a word
I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.

The world goes on as it must,
the bees in the garden rumbling a little…

But I’m taking the day off.
Quiet as a feather.
I hardly move tho…I’m travelling a great distance.

Excerpt from Today
by Mary Oliver